Gothic Seat Circa 150 Metres South West of Painswick House is a Grade II* listed building in the Stroud local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 August 1990. A Georgian Garden element.
Gothic Seat Circa 150 Metres South West of Painswick House
- WRENN ID
- late-balcony-swift
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Stroud
- Constituency
- North Cotswolds MP: Sir Geoffrey Clifton-Brown (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 August 1990
- Type
- Garden element
- Period
- Georgian
- OS grid reference
- SO 861 103
- Coordinates
- 51.79192, -2.20163
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Gothic seat, located approximately 150 meters southwest of Painswick House, is a garden element dating from around 1750, possibly designed by Thomas Robins. It features a large limestone ashlar block front and a rubble back wall, topped with a stone slate roof. The structure consists of a 3-bay open loggia with pointed arches that are separated by slender clustered colonnettes. The central opening is wider and has crenellations above a string course that is raised in the center section. At the back, there are two raking buttresses. Inside, there is a rectangular coved plaster vault; however, both this and the hipped roof were noted to be in poor condition during a survey in March 1986. This Gothic seat is part of a significant group of garden buildings within an important surviving rococo ensemble, situated at the end of a long north-south vista.
Local climate
Gothic Seat Circa 150 Metres South West of Painswick House receives an average of 800 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 55% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 74% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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